The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-15
A QUEEN OF THE COWBOYS.
Adventures of a Flaxen-
Haired Saxon.
From M Ner York Timles.

Haired Saxon.
From the Ner York Times.
Augusta Loesner, a beautiful, buxom
blonde of 20 years, who came from Saxony
in 1884, was met and wooed and won almost
| Immediately by Xavier Gramer, widower
with six children, and about fifteen years
her senior. He took her and little child
she had brought with her from Saxony to
his modest home in the rear of As Bartlett
street, Brooklyn, and installed her as mis-
tress OF his household. The husband was a
Woodworking painter, much OF the time
away from home, and the wife was of
very vivacious temperament. The young
men of the neighborhOod were not long
III singing her out among the bellies or their
social circle for more than ordinary atten-
tons. One among them was tall and straight
and Gark-her perfect foil-and him she
soon selected as favorite. The baby died
and she lost interest in her household du-
ties. Her husbands children were not con-
genial companions, and he had already been
supplanted in her affections. When, there
fore, her lover came to her and told
her OF his bright prospects and undying de.
votion, and pleaded with her to leave all
and 90 with him to his new ranch in the
West, where he was to indulge in stock
raising, where all that she wished would be
provided for her, and she should be queen
OF his ranch and of his hearts best affec-
lions, she was willing to listen and to yield
The painter returned to his home one
night to find that his wife had gone. She
left no word, but the departure of her lover
at the same time furnished a sufficient ex-
PLANTATION OF her flight, and the husband
gave her up as forever lost to him. Not so,
however. In about three months after her
flight the husband, on returning home from
work at night found her lying ahed with
huh hrr hon. yi, 10 hnC aiI hat 81 oh
been deserted by her lover in Detroit, and,
protesting her innocence of any greater
wrong than fight in his company, she
begged to be taken back But the husband
was incredulous. He would not turn her
out in her predicament, but he told her she
would have to go as soon as she was able to
travel The child lived only few days,
and within a little while the woman again
disappeared, this time alone and no one
knew whittier.
A few months ago Gramer received from
his wife a letter dated at Walla Walla,
Washington Territory, reciting an almost
Incredible story of adventure and nomadic
life that, while it was interesting, showed
Mr. Gramer a way to permanent release
from the matrimonial bonds which still the
oretically bound them together She wrote
that she had returned to Detroit and joined
interests with a party of emigrants bound
for Idaho, where they proposed to engage in
farming On the way across the plains she
learned how to ride and how to shoot as
became a pioneer woman. The emigrants
were disappointed about getting the land
they had intended to settle upon as home
steaders, and so determined to go on further
and engage i'll stock raising. Mrs. Gramer
went with them, assisting at the cooking
and camp work when they were in camp,
and at driving and herding while on the
march.
One day the party learned that buffaloes
were in herd not far distant, and the men
were wild to get a shot at them. Mrs.
Gramer insisted upon going with them, and
although they tried to persuade her to re-
main with the wagons, she was obdurate,
and they concluded to take her along.
Mounted on an ugly little mustang and
carrying a light rifle across her saddle, she
rode with the men until the game came in
sight, when in the consequent excitement
and commotion she became separated from
the party and her mustang CHANGING to
stumble she was thrown and had her leg
broken. She lay helpless for several hours
| in a slight depression in the ground, suffer-
ing excruciating pain, when a band of
| Snake Indians who had been hunting the
| buffalo came along and discovered her.
They took her up tenderly and half -breed
medicine man among them managed to set
the broken limb. Making a litter
| for her of long poles and
wicker work, that was traied along
| the ground behind pony, the Indians took
her with them on their journey toward the
| Columbia river. During her convalescence
| she was the recipient of distinguished at
| tentions from the chief of the band, who
| proposed to install her as the head of his
household. But feigning greater weakness
and suffering than were real she threw the
Indians off their guard, and when opportu-
nifty presented itself she seized mustang
! and effected her escape to a party of cow
boys in the near neighborhood, by whom
| she was given an enthusiastic welcome.
She was the only woman within many
miles. and was treated with the utmost gal
| lantry by the semi-civilized stockraisers,
who handed over to her the charge of their
camp.
She writes that she is delighted with the
wild free life she is leading among the cow
boys, by whom she is treated like a queen
and whom she invests with a nobility and
gallantry she did not find prevalent among
the denizens of Williamsburg. She said she
would never return to civilized society
again. Mr. Gramer had begun an action
for divorce absolute and the summons by
publication having been returned properly
executed the case was set down for an early
hearing